Category: eCommerce

(Reposted due to popular demand) Another great video from Josh Wills. Josh is Sr. Director of Data Science at Cloudera and has a gift for making fairly complicated technology explanations very digestible to the novice and intermediary techie.

What I most love about this video is how Josh explains -very clearly – the issue of translating analytics Machine Learning on a large set of data records (many individuals) and making it work well in a “real life” production environment on a single individual (think eCommerce). Watch Video

In this 20 minute Video, Mikio Braun, Data Scientist at Streamdrill, discusses novel systems based on stream mining algorithms which accumulate statistics on user behavior in real-time in a streaming fashion, this way always reflecting the most recent user behavior. Watch Video

We’ve been hearing about Data Science as a Service (DSaaS). It can be a good option, based on your company’s needs and the shortage of talented, experienced Data Scientists. Serial Metrics is one such company making an impact.

Watch very informative videos from Internet World 2013 on Customer Metrics by Sailthru, the latest trends in eCommerce from Warby Parker, and …just for fun..How pump up that Match.com Profile. Watch Videos

Putting Google BigQuery to the test ThoughtWorks wanted to road test Google BigQuery so we worked with a UK big data client, Auto Trader, the top UK site for buying and selling cars online. We gave three people five days and the top-of-mind questions for Auto Trader’s dealers. With five years’ historical data, over […]

OK, this is “data science” of a slightly different kind, but used in the same way to direct how the underlying software platform of Chemistry.com would successfully match up romantic pairs. Very compelling stuff. Helen Fisher is a renowned Anthropologist was hired by Chemistry.com, a division of Match.com, to devise an effective schema for match making. She […]